If you take your Bibles and turn
with me to Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12. We're looking at the Lord's Passover. I've entitled this message the
Lord's Passover. Now, this series of events begins
in chapter 10, of course. But we're going to be focusing
on this chapter 12, because this is a great picture of God's salvation. Here we have the Passover of
Israel. And we know that this is a picture
of God's salvation, because we know this, that all of the Old
Testament Scriptures, as well as the New, testify of the life,
the death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He so those Pharisees
search the scriptures in them you think you have eternal life,
but they are they that testify of me This whole book is about
Christ This whole book is about Christ From cover to cover. It's about him and his salvation
that God has provided You know, from the moment there was a first
sinner, you received the first message of God's Savior. You know, when Adam sinned, he
did not take God by surprise. Rather, the sin of Adam was purposed
of God. The sin of Adam was purposed
of God in order that He might show this, the inability of man
to either make himself holy or maintain holiness. Consider Adam,
who made him holy? It was God. God created him upright
without sin. Who was it that kept Adam until
the point of his sin? It was God who kept him in that
perfect estate. And when he fell, it revealed
this, that if God were to remove his hand from him, what happened? Sin entered into the world. So
it proves this, that man cannot by himself either give himself
holiness or maintain it. And so God also determining a
better plan, a better plan of salvation that God Himself would
provide. You remember that illustration
of Abraham and Isaac? He said, Father, here's the fire,
here's the wood, the knife, where's the lamb? And He said, God will
provide Himself That's the first message. God declared He was
going to provide Himself a sacrifice. And so His better plan is salvation
without man. Salvation without the help of
man. And now in this passage we have here before us, this
demonstrates another point, another picture of this salvation. Now
the children of Israel at this time were in bondage to Pharaoh
in Egypt. And God chose a man, Moses, and
he sent Moses as his spokesman to Pharaoh with this message,
ìLet my people go.î Simple message, plainly understood by Pharaoh,
and yet we know this, Pharaoh hardened his heart against God. We know this. And therefore God
sent those ten plagues. You remember he sent the plague
of blood. Can you imagine every pot of
water was blood? Can you imagine the stench of
that nation? And yet Pharaoh would not let
them go. The frogs, imagine the frogs,
the sound all night long, frogs croaking. in your water, in your
food, in your bed, and yet he would not let them go. Lice? You ever had lice? I mean the
whole nation was covered with lice. Flies, the cattle had died,
boils bursted out upon their skin, great hail came down from
heaven, locusts, Darkness covered the earth all of these plagues
how miserable were these plagues and Yet the result was always
the same. He would not let Israel go Until
this last plague This is the plague of Passover the plague
of Passover was the straw that broke the camel's back It was
this plague that God determined to deliver His people from bondage. But remember, Pharaoh hardened
his heart, but we know this, who really hardened Pharaoh's
heart? Look at chapter 10, look at chapter
10. Now Pharaoh is guilty for hardening
his heart, but yet I know this, God determined even before the
first plague He was going to do it. Look what he said in verse
1. The Lord said unto Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened
his heart and the heart of his servants. Listen to the purpose. That I might show these signs
before him, things I have wrought in Egypt. Oh, I'm sorry. That
I might show my signs before him. And secondly, that thou
mayest tell in the ears of thy son and thy sons' sons what things
I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among
them, that you may know how that I am the Lord. You see, the dual
purpose of hardening Pharaoh's heart was to destroy Pharaoh
and his servants and to deliver his people and give them the
knowledge of God. See the division God makes? Same
plague, right? And yet see the two distinctly
different purposes of God in this. To save Israel and condemn
their enemies. Why was Pharaoh and his servants
hardened? The answer to that is Romans
9. Remember Paul revealed this in Romans 9. God said to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I'll have mercy. I'll have compassion
on whom I'll have compassion. So then what's the result of
this? It's not of him that willeth or him that runneth, but God
that showeth mercy. Then he gives the illustration.
What's the illustration? It's Pharaoh, isn't it? For the
Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even in this same purpose have
I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that
my name might be declared throughout the earth. You see, the purpose
of God is then to what? Preach the gospel. The purpose
of him and this plague was this, that Christ should be magnified. That the gospel should be preached
and declared. And when the gospel is declared,
listen, there is always a division made. Always. Between God's people
and God's enemies. There's always a division. God's people learn of God. And
God's enemies are destroyed by it. This is God's purpose to
show forth his power and especially his grace to his children. And
listen, what God said he would do. He did. This is always comforting know
about God in it. When God says he'll do something.
He'll do it. He'll do it. He did what God
said He would do. He destroyed Pharaoh and He saved
Israel. And all this history was intended
to show the salvation by Jesus Christ to His people. Again,
this is just a history story. It's no value to us. But it's
not just history. Friends, this is a gospel message.
God used this. This really happened to these
people. And yet it was intended so that we should benefit from
it. And so this last plague was the greatest of all the plagues,
because it represents this is the only plague the Lord said
that his people should remember. He said, you have to remember
the blood in the water turned to blood. You don't remember
that. You don't remember the flies or the locusts or the or the
frogs or or dark. You don't remember any of those.
This is the plague you need to remember. This is the one that
I'm setting forth. Why? Because this one pictures
Christ. I was speaking to someone, one
of you guys, I guess. About the, in Revelation. In Revelation, how many warnings
do you see in that book of Revelation? Warning after warning after warning
and plagues and famines and they're all warnings. There are trumpets
blowing all over the place. Warning man. You know what that
does? Nothing. God sent nine warnings to Pharaoh. What did that do? Nothing. It's only when the gospel is
preached that men are saved. Not just yelling out fire and
brimstone, don't go to hell. That don't do anything. That's
true. I warn you about it. You should
flee from the wrath to come. But I know this, only the love
of God through Jesus Christ draws men to himself. That's it. And this is a message of great
love right here. A message of God's Passover.
The Lord said in chapter 12 in verse 14, He said this, This
day shall be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast
to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast and
an ordinance, listen, forever, forever. Today, as we are reading
this passage, as every time we preach the gospel, listen, we're
preaching the Passover. We're keeping this feast simply
by faith. trusting in Christ. These people
had an outward sign, but we have the real, we have Christ who
is clearly going, we are going to see how He is pictured in
this Passover. That He is the Passover Lamb. It is a very important feast
for Israel, but it is really an important feast for all of
those of us who believe on Christ. I would have us notice this,
that in this passage in this Passover, we see that it is through
substitution that Israel is saved. Very important lesson. If anyone
is to be saved, it must be by substitution. It must be. Not by works, not by merits,
but by plain substitution. In other words, a lamb must have
died. Or Israel would not have been
delivered. How much more true is that spiritually? Except the Lamb of God should
die for our sins. Israel would not be saved. Now
that I want to see three things this morning, four things possibly. First of all, I want us to pay
attention to the lamb. Why? Because this is the lamb
is the center theme of the Passover. The Lamb is the most important
part of the Passover. Without the Lamb, there would
be no Passover. You can eat unleavened bread,
you can be sincere. If the Israelites sit there and
they ate unleavened bread all week, and then they were really
sincere, they didn't want to die, and they begged God, and
they pleaded with God, and they cried, and they cried, and they
cried, and they cried. Listen, it didn't matter unless
they had the Lamb. Without the Lamb, there would
be no Passover. So the Lamb is the center focus
of the Passover. Okay, so go to chapter 12 now.
Go back to chapter 12. See this in verse, we'll read
verse 3 through 5 now. He said, Speak unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month, They shall
take to them every man a lamb. According to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house, and if the household be too little
for a lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according
to the number of souls. Every man, according to his eating,
shall make your count for the lamb. And he describes then the
lamb that must be taken. He says it is a lamb shall be
without spot, without blemish, a male of the first year. And
you shall take it from the sheep and from the goats. This lamb
that was to be sacrificed, it must be spotless. And all the sacrifices of the
Jews, then they offered a lamb. This was a requirement that it
be without blemish. Now this means that the priests
and elders, before they were to offer this lamb, they had
to inspect it. They had to inspect this lamb
thoroughly. In fact, this lamb was to be
set aside for 14 days for inspection. You had 14 days to look over
this lamb. To make sure that this lamb was
spotless, that it did not, they would not offer a lamb that had
one black hair. It must be without blemish, without
blemish. Someone wrote this and I, that saying if you, going over
with a fine tooth comb. You know that saying? They said
that they took the priest and they would comb through this
just to see. Comb through that lamb just to see if it was a
blemish or any spot in it. If it had a spot, it would be
disqualified. Now I want you to see then, as
this is, a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. When John announced
His coming, the forerunner announced the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ, when he saw Him, what was his first response to the
Lord Jesus Christ? He said, Behold, the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the world, beareth away the
sin of the world. That was His declaration. Behold, the Lamb
of God! Behold, the Passover Lamb! And it was from that moment He
began to be inspected. He was set aside for inspection
by all men. By the rulers, Jews and Gentiles
alike. And you know what they found?
They found Him to be spotless. He was spotless. He was spotless. Peter says this in 1 Peter 1,
18. He says, For as much as you know,
you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. from
your vain conversation received by traditionary fathers. In other
words, you're not redeemed by the law. You're not redeemed
with silver and gold. No, you can't buy your redemption
with these corruptible things. He said, but the precious blood
of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5,
21, He was made to be sin. Now why was He made to be sin?
Well, He had to because He had no sin. He had to be made something
that He wasn't. He was holy. He was without sin. He knew no sin. How could this be? This man,
Jesus, how could He be without sin? And we all were born sinners. None of us escaped this. How
is it that He, being a man, would be sinless? I'll tell you how. Because He was not just a man.
He was God. He was God. Go to Philippians
chapter 2. Philippians chapter 2. Look at verse 6. Philippians
chapter 2 and verse 6. Who, speaking of Christ, being
in the form of God. Now that word form means nature. He being in the nature of God. Thought it not robbery to be
equal with God. Wow, that's a statement, friends.
Jesus Christ is God. It's His nature. It's who He
is. But notice this, "...but made
of Himself no reputation, and took upon Him the nature of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of man." He took on
a human nature. You see then the dual nature
of Christ. You see that He was God and He
was man. You looked at Him, He was one
man, but yet we know this, that He had both natures. The difference
was His human nature and His deity were both without sin. He was not of the seed of Adam,
He was the seed of the woman, made by the Holy Spirit Himself. Therefore, all of His human nature
was just as holy as His divine nature. He was God, manifest in the flesh. The Son of God came in the likeness
of sinful flesh. When you looked at Him, He was
no different. You couldn't tell outwardly any difference between
any other man, except when he spoke and you watched him. When
you inspected him. And they did. How many times
did they try to trip him up? And how many times were they
successful? They were never successful. Why? Because he was without sin.
He said this to them, which of you convinces me of sin, which
who's going to convict me of sin? You know, we can't say that. Just watch me a minute. But they
watched him and you know what they found, they found no sin. But yet he being deity was also
really man. This is comforting to us because
we have an odd and high priest that's not able to be touched
with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted
as we are, what? Yet without sin. He was tested, he was tempted,
he was tried in all points without sin. This man, Jesus Christ,
was the perfect, sinless God-man. It was impossible for this man
to sin because he himself was God. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. So when we see this Lamb here,
God said this Lamb had to be spotless. And you understand
this. God was intending for us to look
to Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb of God. Now why is this
important that Christ should be without sin? Simply this,
He was a representative man. As Adam was a representative
man, and in Adam all died, in Adam all sinned. Even so, by
this representative man, Jesus Christ being the spotless Lamb
of God, obtained for us the righteousness of God. That's what Paul said in Romans
chapter 3, even the righteousness of God, which is by the faith
of Jesus Christ. So as he was. As he was living
a righteous life as he was fully in obedience and compliance with
the law of God, listen. Did he need that for himself?
No. You see, he was doing this, first
of all, for the glory of God. That law, because it is a law
of God, must be honored. And Christ honored the law by
his obedience. But in glorifying God, listen,
this is a benefit for us. He obtained for us an everlasting
righteousness. Listen, you who are believers
in Christ, I want you to see this, the righteousness of has
been both imputed and imparted to you. Now listen, God can't declare
you to be righteous unless you're really righteous. Can't do it. That would be a
lie. That's what imputing is. Imputing
is declaring something that already is. Is it counted to be so? Why?
Because it is so. You are made the righteousness
of God in Jesus Christ. He gives that to us. It's imparted, it's imputed to
us. Then it is imparted to us by
giving us that new nature, that new heart. By being born again
of the Spirit of God. We are made holy. Paul in Ephesians tells us that,
that that new nature is created. Means it wasn't there before.
And now it is. By a miracle of grace, we are
created after God in true, not pretend, true holiness. This is how we can pray and be
accepted. This is how we can worship and
be accepted. Because you are holy in the sight
of God. And yet we know this, that this old flesh is so full of
sin. And therefore we see the struggle
in ourselves. But this is the point of this
text. Christ is a sinless lamb. He's
the spotless lamb. And He obtained for us righteousness.
Second of all, I want you to see the death of this Lamb. The death of this Lamb in verse
6. He said, You shall keep it unto
the fourteenth day of the same month, and listen, the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. The Lamb that was chosen and
spotless was to be sacrificed by the whole congregation. Now after Jesus had obtained
our righteousness, we know this, that He must of necessity also
be offered a sacrifice. If Christ were to merit the righteousness
of God and then just ascend into heaven, you realize that the
law is not yet fully complete. The law is not yet fully honored. Why? Because sin must be punished. God is just and holy and must
punish sin. Therefore, Christ not only obtained
our righteousness, but by his death, he would obtain our redemption. When Christ came to that time,
he said this, mine hour has come. You realize this, that his whole
life he knew this hour was coming. How many times did he say, my
hour is not yet come, my hour is not yet come. But when he
came, he said, there's my an hour is come. Now is my soul
troubled. And what shall I say? Father
saved me from this hour. But for this cause came I into
the world. Father. Glorify thy name. What cause did he come in this
world for? to glorify the father by his death to glorify the father. Jesus purposed. Was purpose for
coming into this world was that he should glorify God and satisfy
the justice of God that was due to his people and thus completely
fulfilling the law. You see, the law has those parts.
It has the law. First of all, for obedience,
you the law demands obedience. But the second part of the law
is this, punishment. Therefore Christ who fulfilled
the law must do both. He must obey the law in every
precept and then die as a substitute for his people. He tells us, think not I've come
to destroy the law, I came to fulfill. To fulfill. He came to fulfill the law, and
it did so by his obedience and by his offering, which the law demands. He offered himself as a sacrifice
for the sins. Scripture says, as I said before,
second Corinthians 5 21. He was made to be sin for us. I think that The picture of that
great day of atonement. Remember how the sins were confessed
upon the head of that goat? And then it was carried away,
and then there was another goat that was to be killed. Both of
them represent the Lord Jesus Christ and his death. He bore our sins. What John said,
he's behold the Lamb of God that beareth away the sin of the world.
That's what he came into the world to do. to bear our sins
in His own body on the tree. And therefore, this morning,
behold the Lamb of God, behold Christ who came into the world
in great love for His people, that He would lay down His life. He laid down His life. And notice
this, that the whole assembly were to kill Him. Every man,
every household had a lamb. And they'd take that lamb in
the middle of the congregation of the assembly and they'd kill
it in front of everybody. They did this in the evening. This is a picture of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Why? Because both Jew and Gentile
were responsible for his death. You realize there was a reason
why he had to be brought before Pilate? Because that showed this,
that every man had a hand in his death. They said in their
hearts, I will not have this man to rule over me. This is
what man does by nature. He says, I will not have this
man to rule over me. Release unto us Barabbas and
crucify him. Crucify him. That was the demand
of all men by nature. Their screams were our screams. But behold, the sovereign, eternal
decree of God was what really determined his death, wasn't
it? Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have by wicked hands
taken and crucified the Lord of glory. It was determined for
him to die that the only begotten Son should be made an offering
to bear the sin of many. If you're a believer in Christ,
it was our sin that the spotless Lamb of God bore at Calvary. God Himself incarnate bore our
sins in His own body and the sword of divine justice slew
Him in our state, the just for the unjust. See that lamb in
the midst of the congregation of Israel. He was slain. For what purpose? That Israel
should be delivered. Make no mistake in that day in
Israel, if there was no lamb, if there was no offering, there
was no deliverance. The death of the lamb was just
as important as the spotlessness of the lamb. And notice this,
the blood then of the lamb. The lamb is slain, but then there's
something else. The blood of the lamb. Look at
that in verse 7. They shall take the blood and
strike it on the two side posts and the upper door post of the
houses wherein they shall eat it. Those that place the blood
of the spotless lamb upon the side post and the top door post
Listen when God passed by in judgment that night This is why
it's called passed over because when God saw the blood He passed
over that house Passed over that house God that
night determined to go through the land of Egypt and slay the
firstborn he determined pass through in judgment. And listen,
make no mistake, God is determined to pass through in judgment upon
this world. There is a day of judgment. There is a day when
God will judge all men in absolute holy justice. God has decreed it. But this
is the hope then when I see the blood. This is the only instance where
God will pass over men in judgment. When I see the debt has already
been paid. You see, that's what the blood
did. It testified the debt was already paid. And because God
is just, He cannot demand twice payment. Therefore he will pass
over all who have the blood now this blood on the doorpost is
a picture then of the blood of Jesus Christ as it is applied
to the hearts of men as It is applied to the hearts of men
by the Spirit of God now when a sinner When a sinner is made
to see his sin When he is made to see his need that judgment
is coming, that He is guilty, when He sees that His works and
His religious deeds can by no means pay the price. It's then by the grace of God
He sees that there is a payment already been made. Now listen,
before you applied the blood, the blood had already been shed, I'm telling you, before the blood
of Jesus Christ was applied to our hearts, that blood had already
been shed thousands of years ago. When a sinner sees that the blood
of Jesus Christ is the only thing to cause God to pass over them,
what do they do? They turn in faith to Him alone. You that believe, has this not
happened to you? It happened to us, we see our
sin, we see our need, and then we see that God has provided
for that need. We see that Christ's blood has
been shed. And we know this, that there
is no such thing as mercy without blood. There is no such thing
as redemption without blood. Without the shedding of blood
is no remission of sins. Sins will not be remitted by
religious ceremony, by religious ordinances, or by some wicked
man making a proclamation of forgiveness. Sins are only remitted
by the blood. And listen, the only ones whose
sins are remitted are those to whom the blood is applied. Imagine
Israelite, he goes out there and he kills the lamb and he
goes back to his house and he says, Oh, everything's all right.
The lamb's been killed. Well, dad, what? What about applying
the blood? Oh, that's not necessary. He's
already been killed. You know what? That man, no matter
how sincere he was, God would judge him and he'd be dead. His
son be dead. There's a lot of people that
just acknowledge the death of Christ but have no application
to their hearts. Accept the blood be applied to
your heart. God will not pass over you. If you believe in your works,
then there is no blood applied for you. God demands payment for sins
in blood. And our blood is not sufficient
because ours is sinful. But God has made provision by
the perfect Lamb of God that his blood should be applied to
the hearts of his people. I like this Revelation 7 14.
It says that angel asked me, says, Who are these that whose
robes are made white? He said, Sir, you know, what
are you asking me for? You know that. And he said, These
are the ones that have made their robes white. They washed their
robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Now, I
thought of this as I was reading that is just thinking, you know,
that's against human nature. Wisdom, isn't it? Human wisdom.
You see a bucket of blood and a bucket of water and you say,
okay, which one's going to make you what? Which one's going to
clean your clothes? Well, natural wisdom says water.
This is spiritual wisdom because this is a spiritual thing. It
is only the blood of Christ that cleanses us from all our sins. Only the blood. Only the blood. Why should you be accepted? Why
should God pass over you? Why should God pass over you? What can wash away my sins? Nothing. No works, no religious
deeds, no morality, no sincerity. Listen, your sincerity will not
wash away your sins. Your religious zeal will not
wash away your sins. Only the blood of Christ can
wash away our sins. Only those then are made perfect.
And what is it to have this applied? I like this. When they put that
blood on the door, He said, OK, now you go in the house and eat
it. Who in the house could see the
blood? Couldn't see it. I mean, if I
was a firstborn, I'd be, Daddy, are you sure the blood's out
there? I'd be kind of nervous. Dad,
are you sure there's enough blood on the doorpost that God see
it? It doesn't matter at times if
you see it. It only matters if God sees it. How do we know the bloodís applied?
Simply this. Do you eat the lamb? They were
commanded to go into their house and eat the lamb. Look at this. He said in verse 8, ìThou shalt
eat the flesh in the night, roast it with fire and unleavened bread
and bitter herbs. Eat it, now donít eat it raw
or sodden.î with water. Don't mix it. Don't water it
down. You eat it as it is. He said you eat the innards from
the head and the legs. You eat every bit of it. Roasted with fire. Don't eat
it raw. Roasted. Remember Christ's sacrifice
was He endured the wrath of God for our sins. He felt the fires
of hell as He was roasted. Upon the cross, He was killed
by the justice of God. And we eat this by faith, friends. We eat of Him. Isn't that what
He said? He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, they shall
never hunger or thirst. Well, it's spiritual words here,
friends. They eat of physical lamb, but
we're eating of spiritual lamb this morning. Feast upon Him. Feast upon Him. Don't mix Him
with anything. And don't let anything remain
till the morning. And this is how you're going
to eat it. Listen. Verse 11. Thou shalt eat it with your loins
girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand.
What does this mean? Ready to go. Are you ready to go? Are you ready to go? That's how
you eat this. You eat this looking for the
full deliverance. Listen, that night they were
delivered, weren't they? I mean, Pharaoh, his whole countenance
fell. He had no strength left in him
to keep them. They were free. But yet they
hadn't fully experienced the deliverance yet. That's how we
are. We're eating this lamb ready
to go. Ready to be delivered. That's how we're to eat Christ.
And friends, We got to take comfort in this. His blood is sufficient.
The point of this lamb's blood being applied is this. It was
sufficient. Everyone who had the blood. Lift. The other blood this morning,
listen, you shall live. You shall live. Why? This is the Lord's Passover. Now Israel benefited from it,
but whose Passover was it? It was the Lord's. Whose salvation is this that
you have? It's the Lord's. He purposed to give it to you. He purchased it for you. He applied
it to you. He keeps it. And friends, make no mistake,
you shall be delivered. You shall be. Soon, and very
soon, He will come for us. And we will fully know what it
means to be delivered. I tell you, I am delivered, but
I don't yet know fully what that means. I can enter into it only
just a little. But soon we shall see what it
really means to be free. Free from sin. The presence of
sin. You're free from the guilt and
the power of sin, but you ain't yet free from the presence of
sin. You will be. You will be. Because the Lord Jesus is our
Passover. He is our lamb. His blood has
been shed. God is satisfied. God is satisfied. May God give us then contentment
to be satisfied. Christ is enough. No, Christ
is all. Christ is all. Let's stand and
be dismissed in prayer. We're going to dismiss as broken. Yes. Yeah. You know, Scott make
an announcement. I'm sorry I didn't get that earlier. Come on. You want to make that
announcement, you can. Yeah. So we've been talking about lighting
out here in the parking lot. I haven't reached out yet to
Duke. to see if they can put a pole out there for a security
light or something like that. So that is an option. There still
would be a cost involved. Another thing we've talked about
is running electrical from this box all the way around and lighting
up that sign with actual generated electricity rather than trying
to do it with the solar lights I put on there. And then we would
have lighting. We could put lighting up in the
parking lot. Anyway, there's a cost involved in all that. Just give
that some consideration. And then the pastor is going
to go out for conference next month. And so they're going to
be cost involved with that. So we want to keep that in our
minds. And then also, let's not forget,
Lord willing, we'll have our meal back here next Sunday. So is there anything else, Fred?
I just keep that in mind. And just
to remind others that the calls are ongoing. We have calls that
just keep going. So like sometimes when people
aren't here, they're not here to remember, or they just miss
that opportunity to give, and our calls keep going. Most of us don't think about
that. Just keep that in mind. electricity and that sort of
thing. So that's gonna, it's gonna be substantial if we run
electricity. I think the Duke thing might
be better if we can see if we hit. He is a complex hazard and
he said it's 50 for y'all. So we don't know exactly what
it's gonna be, but maybe looking at a hundred that they replace
if all of the money goes out and things like that, they didn't
care. So the other thing is it's getting solar out there, but
again, we run the same problem. We have the solar over time,
which is good, When you don't have sun, you don't have lights. So that's another thing. So if
you see anybody, remind them that those that aren't here,
just kind of give them a hint that they're the same thing.
They're probably watching. So just in case. Yeah. And then
I've got some blank cameras. I'm going to install those. And
one of them has a light that will come on for motion detection. So that might help. in the interim
while we get all this set up. But it's safety, too, because
it's nighttime. And also, we're seeing this, that when the people
are passing by, they're not seeing our doors. Yeah. It's just too
dark. We just don't have enough visibility
for people to feel safe. You know, you're driving by.
Imagine if you're driving by and looking for a church and
it's dimly lit. You know, you wouldn't want that. as we go forward, so thank you. Yeah, we owe another 500 on this
sign, so I'm paying that next month, but then also to add a
little panel that says our worship times, then that's another 250,
and that's not too bad, but right now with everything combined,
it's a bit of a stress on us, so. Just consider, ask the Lord
to be gracious and give you whatever it is he wants you to do that.
There's no requirement of anybody. The Lord puts on your heart to
do that for you. I appreciate you reminding
me. I would not have remembered.